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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
If the average US citizen paid to be included in Medicare coverage our healthcare cost would decrease by 2/3rds. Medicare works pretty well notwithstanding the future funding problems -- increase the funding base pool -- you kill two birds with one stone.
Rest assured, the Medical-Industrial Complex is behind the resistance to this change. |
In all honesty thats what it should have been but that would put private health insurance out of business....The USA is the last country on earth where they make big money, and all of that is going to go away, mark my words.
Yes they have a huge lobby but The ACA is simply the first step on the road to Universal care.
One of my wants was a private insurance that would be much more affordable but if I needed any kind of surgery I would have been able to do it in Thailand or some other place with excellent hospitals and western trained doctors that charge 10% or even less of what it would cost to get it done here.
For what my insurance paid for out patient sinus surgery a few years ago they could have flown me to Thailand, had the surgery done at Bumrungrad hospital in bangkok put me up for a week with a private nurse at a nice hotel and saved 50%.